FLORUM

A MEETING OF PLANT ECOLOGISTS AT UBC

Florum is a weekly meeting of people from several UBC departments for discussing topics in Plant Ecology. The format is very flexible. One person each week is responsible for sparking the discussion in whatever way they chose. This may involve presenting tentative research ideas, a set of data in need of analysis, a new or old paper to decipher and discuss, a finished research product, or anything they see fit to open for discussion. The main goals are to allow people to get feedback on their research at any and every stage, to explore ideas/papers/methods that people want to better understand, and to connect the rather dispersed group of plant ecologists on the UBC campus. In order to maintain a casual atmosphere, Powerpoint presentations are almost never allowed. Please e-mail Roy Turkington (royt@mail.ubc.ca)  if you want to be on the contact list.

Winter 2011 - Mondays 11am in BDC 224
Date	Presentor/Topic	Readings
9 January	Hemiparasites and ecosystem processes	Spasojevic and Suding 2011
16 January	Tess Grainger	Boreal Plant Experiments
23 January	No FLORUM
30 January	Paper Blitz - Key Issues in C & E	Sutherland et al 2012
6 February	Jessica Lu
13 February	Roy Turkington	Key Issues Conservation and Ecology
20 February	Mid-term Break
27 February	Jeannette Whitton	Key Issues Conservation and Ecology
5 March	Matt Barbour
12 March	Alison Beamish
19 March
26 March	Angelica Gonzalez
2 April	Xin Xin
9 April	Classes End